page_title: H Battery (Ramsay's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery
section_title: First World War
hierarchical_section_title: H Battery (Ramsay's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery / History / First World War
caption_attribution_description: English: A good illustration of a British QF 13 pounder field gun of the Royal Horse Artillery, towed by 6 horses. New York Tribune caption&#160;: "Going into action and hitting only the highest spots, British artillery speeding along in pursuit of the fleeing foe on the Western front."
context_page_description: H Battery (Ramsay's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery is a battery of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, part of the Royal Horse Artillery of the British Army. As of 2015, it is based at Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland, England and is equipped with GMLRS.
  Formed in 1804, the battery has taken part in the Napoleonic Wars, and the First and Second World Wars.
  Since the Second World War, it has seen a wide variety of service as towed and self-propelled artillery, a training and a headquarters unit, and latterly as a precision fire battery. It has been based in Germany as part of the BAOR, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
context_section_description: The brigade system was reintroduced on 1 March 1901, this time as tactical formations, and the battery was assigned to the VII Brigade-Division, RHA (redesignated as VI Brigade, RHA on 1 October 1906) along with K Battery.  In 1903 it was stationed at Meerut.
  By the time the First World War broke out, the battery had been re-equipped with six quick-firing 13 pounders and was stationed at Trowbridge, still assigned to VI Brigade with K Battery and attached to the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.  Initially, it remained in the United Kingdom on mobilisation while the 2nd Cavalry Brigade joined The Cavalry Division and departed for France.  However, on 28 September it was assigned to VII Brigade, RHA in 1st Cavalry Division as a permanent replacement for L Battery which had been almost destroyed at Néry.
  It remained with the 1st Cavalry Division and served with it on the Western Front for the rest of the war.  In practice, the batteries were permanently assigned to the cavalry brigades from September 1914 onwards and the battery was attached to 2nd Cavalry Brigade.  It missed the earlier actions of 1914, but took part in the Race to the Sea, notably the Battle of Messines.
  In 1915 it took part in the Second Battle of Ypres (Battle of Frezenberg, 9–13 May, and Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge, 24 May).  The only action in 1916 was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15 September) when it was in reserve to XIV Corps of Fourth Army.  In 1917, it supported the division in a number of major actions including the Battle of Arras (April, First Battle of the Scarpe) and the Battle of Cambrai (November and December, including the Tank Attack, the Capture of Bourlon Wood and the German Counter-attacks).  At other times, the battery served in the trenches as infantry.
  1918 saw greater action as the war of movement resumed, including the German Operation Michael (March, the Battle of St. Quentin, the First Battle of Bapaume and the Battle of Rosières), the Advance to Victory (August, Battle of Amiens), the Second Battle of the Somme (August, Battle of Albert) and the battles of the Hindenburg Line (October, Battle of Cambrai and the Pursuit to the Selle).
  At the Armistice, it was still serving with 2nd Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.
caption: Photo showing 13 pounder gun team galloping into action.
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